About this episode
<p>As one researcher told us: “We’ve engineered a world where the most distracting device ever made is also the one we use to listen to music in the car." A new study tries to measure the cost.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li><strong>SOURCES:</strong> <ul> <li><a href="https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/anupam-b-jena" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bapu Jena</a>, economist, physician, and professor at Harvard Medical School.</li> <li><a href="https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/people/christopher-worsham" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Worsham</a>, pulmonary and critical-care physician at Mass General Hospital, health-policy and public-health researcher at Harvard Medical School.</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishal-patel-md-mph-3641b6158/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vishal Patel</a>, surgery resident at Brigham and Women's Hospital, researcher at Harvard Medical School.</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li><strong>RESOURCES:</strong> <ul> <li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w34866" rel="noopener noreferrer">Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities</a>," by Vishal Patel, Christopher Worsham, Michael Liu, and Bapu Jena <i>(NBER,</i> 2026).</li> <li><a href="https://amzn.to/3NNLuxk" rel="noopener noreferrer"><i>Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health</i></a>, by Anupam Jena and Christopher Worsham (2023).</li> <li>"<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25531231/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mortality and treatment patterns among patients hospitalized with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings</a>," by Bapu Jena, Vinay Prasad, Dana Goldman, and John Romley <i>(JAMA Internal Medicine,</i> 2015).</li> <li>"<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1148365" rel="noopener noreferrer">Road Crash Fatalities on US Income Tax Days</a>," by Donald Redelmeier and Christopher Yarnell <i>(JAMA,</i> 2012).</li> <li>"<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12855328/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Memories of colonoscopy: a randomized trial</a>," by Donald Redelmeier, Joel Katz, and Daniel Kahneman <i>(PAIN,</i> 2003).</li> </ul></li> </ul> <p> </p> <ul> <li><strong>EXTRAS:</strong> <ul> <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-there-so-much-fraud-in-academia/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?</a>" by <i>Freakonomics Radio</i> (2024).</li> <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-flying-safer-than-driving/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Is Flying Safer Than Driving?</a>" by <i>Freakonomics Radio</i> (2023).</li> <li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-u-s-so-good-at-killing-pedestrians/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?</a>" by <i>Freakonomics Radio</i> (2023).</li> </ul></li> </ul><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>